May 6, 2009
Repo Man’s got all night, every night.
The very fantastic Stop Smiling pointed me to the Financial Times article by director Alex Cox on his spaghetti western obsession. I haven’t been exposed to much of the genre beyond Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, but I do often fall under the influence of the music.
Yet the real find was wedged into the end of the article that he is working on ‘Repo Chick’, a sequel to ‘Repo Man’. I found more details at We Are Movie Geeks along with Waldo’s Hawaiian Holiday, a graphic novel that explains what happened to Otto. There is even more at Alex Cox’s Blog.
I am a big fan of Alex Cox’s movies. Especially ‘Repo Man’. The movie along with my bootleg cassette of the soundtrack became a teenage obsession and still one of my all time favorites. Over the years I’ve found it easily quotable and a fine reference point to a Los Angeles I ended up in 20 years later.
